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The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
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The articles below, all found in a single sandbox, were contributed by what looks like a group of hired writers, and have been deleted. I'm requesting that the topics be salted, because I see new editors preparing replacement articles based closely on the deleted material. I reported the pending replacements earlier today in WP:Sockpuppet_investigations/Morning277. The articles were deleted by various administrators, whom I haven't contacted about this. Salting was recommended by Dennis Brown, who is unavailable right now. Piping indicates where titles shown in the sandbox differ from the titles the articles were eventually placed under.

Comment I remain uncertain about the merits of doing this. The new articles are usually re-created under a different title whether or not the original title is salted, so the salting will not prevent re-creation. All it will do is permit the easier deletion of the title, by making it easier for someone who notice the similarity apply a G5, for deletion of article by blocked puppet, which would in this particularly extensive case probably be justified on behavioral grounds even before the sockpuppettry of the new name is proven at spi. But I am unwilling to do this without confirmation by other admins that it's a reasonable course, so it must be discussed somewhere. DGG ( talk ) 22:38, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Dennis Brown is still in favour of the idea: [1] —rybec 00:11, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
DGG's position sounds very sensible. This request needs to go to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. This place, WP:DRV, is for finding problems with the deletions and is more likely to require AfD discussions instead of speedies than any other outcome. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.
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